Traces of the anti-depressant, fluoxetine – often better known by its commercial name, Prozac – have been detected by an Australian-Italian joint study of lakes and rivers, and may be affecting freshwater fish.
A five-year study by scientists from Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences and the University of Tuscia’s Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences examined the effect of pharmaceutical residues on fish in freshwater in Australia.
